Someone only went and ‘came through’ with the goods. We now have, sitting here in a MAXIMUM SECURITY PASSWORD PROTECTED ZIPPED FILE on our PC (backed up on two independently located memory sticks in case of hard drive failure), the world’s greatest collection of hi-res, Mega Drive era Sonic The Hedgehog artwork.

This is day one of a desktop image campaign that will run for a decade:

SONIC DESKTOP #1: UNDERWATER CRISIS!

Click on it for the full-size original. It’s not quite big enough to fill a whole hi-res desktop, so you’ll have to do your own cropping and resizing. We suggest adding a subtle black border down the side, perhaps.